This isn’t good. It’s going to be an uphill battle, this candidate that Mainstream Media has chosen for the Republicans. I’m worried about November, I think that everyone should BOLT and all of the opposition gather around a candidate that was chosen in a drawing of straws.
How many voters will the DNC lose at THEIR convention this year compared to last?
That’s no surprise Palin was largely unknown so there was a curiosity factor there. I taped Palin’s speech and watch it often. Also keep in mind alot of people and I mean alot of people watch this stuff over the internet now.
Half the viewers cut the networks went straight to CSPAN and Youtube.
That's as far as I got. It's "fewer" not "less", Les!
I will never forgive the GOP for standing by and letting the MSM and demo demons eviscerate this woman publicly.
I still cannot get over it, they wouldn’t lift a finger.
How much of this is due to the networks all but ignoring the convention, giving it just an hour or less each night?
Back in 2008 I could still stomach Fox News for things like this... now I can’t. Where are the numbers for CSPAN viewers?
No, it means we’re streaming it online these days.
That way we don’t have to listen to jagoff reporters.
Men are visual creatures. Sarah is a visual delight.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have boobies and hot legs.
That alone costs them half the males viewers.
17 Million Less Fewer Viewers Watch Ryan in 2012 than Palin in 2008
It was a weird year, 2008. McCain actually had 42.5 million people watch his speech; I’ll be surprised if Romney can meet that number.
But I don’t think this is a big deal — people were curious in 2008, but in 2012 they are mad. We don’t need speeches, we just need the election. People don’t care what the republicans are saying, they are voting for them to stop the bleeding.
I’m not sure it is a bad thing that Ryan was seen as a more traditional pick and therefore didn’t raise the curiosity factor. I’m not sure curiosity would be a good thing this election cycle.
Also, last year’s convention followed labor day, when people were back at work and back home.
This year’s is during the last week of summer vacation.
Maybe 17 million have suspended their satellite or cable services?
I know I reduced a lot of my Dish channels.
Our household watches such events on C-Span, where the "talking heads" don't interrupt and talk over.
Isn't that what everyone does who has an interest in such things?
A woman for vice president is a bit more unusual than yet another man, not to mention part of the U.S. was busy dealing with a hurricane.
I just watched it on Youtube (in 2008 watched Palin live). So I was one of the 17 million. I like Palin, but Ryan’s delivery and the substance behind it was far more compelling to me than Palin’s speech. I thought he absolutely knocked it out of the park. Very strong performance.
This does not take into consideration the death of MSM. People will not watch the DNC either—and that is where twitter feed, and a host of other exposures may come in. All money related, and ground pounding to the polls on Election Day. Conservative activists get to work- make it happen. About which see Ralph Reed and the number of evangelicals and Catholics who did not vote at all in 2008. There is a very large gap of people being missed in this “non viewing” number.